Tag: Plant-based whole food

Creating Balance for Weight Loss

Even a whole-food, plant based diet may not always be enough to reach your goal weight, although it’s a great place to start. For some, it can take an overall healthy approach and re-establishing balance to see improvements. These upgrades are essential for reducing inflammation, lowering oxidative stress, downshifting stress hormones, nourishing the microbiome, supporting the immune system, and resulting in healthy weight loss.

 

  1. Eat more plant-based, whole foods.
    1. Emphasis on WHOLE foods and plants.
    2. This means lots of fresh vegetables, fruits, whole-unaltered grains, legumes, ¼ cups seeds and nuts per day. As Dr. Fuhrman says, the more raw
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Happy Healthy Heart Month

February is the month of Valentine’s Day, but much more importantly, it is also heart awareness month. It is time to bring real awareness that heart disease is still the number one cause of death for both men and women in the US, killing more people than all cancers combined. For example, 1 in 8 women will die of breast cancer, but 1 in 3 women will die of heart disease. (CDC) This is extremely distressing, as heart disease has been clinically shown to be preventable, arrestable, and even reversible. (Ornish, Lancet, 1990). I urge you to become aware of … Read the rest